Tamara Tunie Quotes
Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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Too clever is dumb.
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The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.
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Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.
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I know that when I get stressed, I want to eat junk food. So now I just know - 'I'm stressed, I want to eat junk food, so I'm going to go work out instead, or eat something healthy.' It really works.
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You have to learn to overcome those feelings when somebody is negative about a production you love or if that production doesn't do well commercially. After 'Gone With the Wind', I felt older. I even thought about quitting the business.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
